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Usikus
Feb 18, 2023Aspirant
Rebooting Netgear rax 120
Recently I bought a Netgear Rax 120 Serial : 5VE399 1.2.8.40 on Ebay. When it arrived to me in Ukraine, I could not believe that the device for $300 could work so badly. WiFi was rebooting constantl...
- Feb 19, 2023
Might be why it was sold on ebay versus from the netgear store.
plemans
Feb 19, 2023Guru - Experienced User
Might be why it was sold on ebay versus from the netgear store.
Usikus
Feb 19, 2023Aspirant
This plate was assembled the way it was at the factory, as these guides are pressed into it. It is almost impossible to do this at home. The plate is a router overheating problem. In this case, I do not see the difference where the Rax120 was bought
- FURRYe38Feb 19, 2023Guru - Experienced User
May have been a mfr'g defect of the line.
- michaelkenwardFeb 19, 2023Guru - Experienced User
Has anyone reported similar issues here?
Not the construction, which can change during manufacturing and that few people will feel confident to investigate, but the consequences you see in performance, the reboots.
There have been various reports of reboots on a number of routers. These usually get put down to firmware rather than manufacturing.
- UsikusFeb 19, 2023AspirantSpecifically, in my case, most likely a mistake was made on the assembly line. I read a lot of complaints about the incorrect work of wifi, and in my case this problem was solved. It is not the upper radiator and the processor that overheats, as everyone thinks, but the bottom plate that cools the modules, so the cooling sensor does not work correctly. I am sorry for my English)
- UsikusFeb 19, 2023AspirantHe is now a little warm, but before he was always hot